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What will it take for staunch Democrats to vote third party? (x.com)

submitted 3 days ago by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/151111

With the dust is settling from their defeat on Tuesday, it's becoming clearer that there was some incredible malpractice going on in the Democratic party. As shown in the tweet I linked, Biden delayed dropping out even though his team knew it was going to be a complete blowout for Trump. Then, we have Harris's campaign spending over a billion dollars and still losing all of the swing states she needed to win.

For all the Democrats who would never vote Republican and would have never voted third party, are you now considering voting third party in future elections? If not, what would it take?

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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Despite a billion dollars in funding, the Democrats campaign didn't have a prayer either. And I have a hard time calling their platform progressive at all. Anyone who liked it more than that of the Greens or the PSL would have just voted Republican.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is like survivor bias.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you mean. We're looking at the wreckage.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're looking at the wreckage.

If you knew what survivorship bias was, and the example usually given for where it came from, you might see the irony in what you just said.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the opposite though? By phrasing it this way it implies the data comes from downed fighters/bombers, aka the exact data you want to avoid that.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 9 points 2 days ago

Yup. In the context of the election, survivorship bias would be Democratic strategists looking at the Trump campaign and saying "we gotta get more racist". Considering at their position on immigration, that's apparently what they did.

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